Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi chugged through the 11-km long tunnel in the inaugural train journey between Banihal to Qazigund along with 12 girl students of a government high school.
The PM praised the engineers for the feat describing the tunnel as an example of engineering marvel that connects two regions of the state, Sonia reached out to the people with a salve saying, “I know very well that painful incidents happen here occasionally, but our democracy has enough scope to sort out issues through dialogue and negotiations.”
“The people are fed up with violence and eager to taste peace and development. The large turnout of people during the Panchayat elections is proof of their desire for peace and development,” she said. The people’s hardships, Sonia said, with the new rail link would become a thing if the past. “The inauguration of the all weather track between Jammu and the Valley is part of the UPA’s commitment to peace and progress,” she said.
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